10.5.1802
Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recipient Johan Hartvig Ernst von Berger
Thorvaldsen asks Berger to remove the marble bust of Edmund Bourke, A900, from one of the crates ...
3.4.1803
Sender Friederike Brun
Recipient Omnes
Friederike and Ida Brun meet Thorvaldsen in the Villa Borghese gardens:/kronologi/vis/1255. Thorv...
Juni-primo juli 1804
Recipient J.L. Lund
Thorvaldsen asks Lund to deliver a letter from him to Maria Zoëga. He has remained in Florence an...
Efter 16.7. og senest 6.8.1804
Thorvaldsen asks Lund to take care of his studio while he is gone. He thanks him for having assis...
6.8.1804
Recipient Nicolai Abildgaard
Thorvaldsen informs Abildgaard that he has been seriously ill. He asks Abildgaard’s permission to...
18.6.1806
Thorvaldsen thanks Abildgaard for helping Gotskalk Thorvaldsen. The war has given Thorvaldsen fin...
23.9.1806
Thorvaldsen has received payment for the three catalogue volumes of the Museo Pio Clementino. He ...
Second draft of a letter: Thorvaldsen has received payment for the three catalogue volumes of the...
First draft of a letter: Thorvaldsen has received payment for the three catalogue volumes of the ...
23.1.1807
Recipient Conrad Rantzau
Thorvaldsen tells Conrad Rantzau how work on his commissions is progressing. The portrait bust, c...
16.2.1807
Recipient C.F. Hansen
Thorvaldsen suggests subjects from Greek mythology for the reliefs for the Christiansborg Palace ...
Tidligst september 1807, senest august 1810
Thorvaldsen tells Conrad Rantzau that his bust, cf. A211, is ready to be shipped, and that the re...
8.12.1810
Recipient Hans West
Thorvaldsen asks West to help Høyer in a matter concerning the Academy of Fine Arts. He also writ...
5.8.1815
Sender C.W. Eckersberg
Recipient J.F. Clemens
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
25.5.1820
Recipient Slotsbygningskommissionen
Thorvaldsen firmly declines the proposal of the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace tha...
10.8.1820
Recipient Sulpiz Boisserée
Thorvaldsen is flattered and accepts a commission to execute a frieze with bas-reliefs for a monu...
23.4.1823
Recipient Tekla Potocka
Thorvaldsen thanks Tekla Potocka for her two letters and informs her that the statue of her husba...
21.7.1823
Recipient Nicola Maria Nicolai
Thorvaldsen asks Nicolai to help him settle a legal matter for his assistant Pietro Tenerani. A b...
16.9.1823
Sender Elisa Paulsen
Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen
Elisa Thorvaldsen asks her father for help to pay her and her mother’s rent.
5.7.1826
Elisa Thorvaldsen asks her father to give her one Roman scudo for a trip.
Antagelig 1830
Recipient Jonas Collin
Thorvaldsen asks Jonas Collin to help the history painter Andreas Ludvig Koop financially.
1.4.1830
Recipient Anna Maria Uhden
Elisa Thorvaldsen asks her mother to send her a dress that Thorvaldsen has promised her, probably...
15.1.1833
Recipient Frederik 6.
Thorvaldsen asks permission to adopt his daughter Elisa so that she will obtain the same rights a...
26.10.1833
Thorvaldsen asks Collin to help him deposit a sum of 20,000 species [40,000 rix-dollars] in the N...
16.4.1834
Thorvaldsen is in bed with a severe cold. The last five pieces of the Alexander Frieze are now re...
7.8.1834
Recipient Hermann Ernst Freund
Thorvaldsen’s departure for Denmark is delayed, so he asks Freund to give him a detailed report o...
9.6.1838
Recipient Horace Vernet
Thorvaldsen regrets that he has not been able to pass through Paris and see the works that Vernet...
15.2.1840
Thorvaldsen asks for 500 species [1,000 rix-dollars] as partial payment for the works that he is ...
17.10.1840
Sender Christine Stampe, Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recipient H.C. Andersen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
15.1.1843
Recipient Karl von Kolb
Thorvaldsen asks his banker Karl von Kolb to see to it that C.F. Holbech, who is in charge of Tho...